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Good morning everyone! What an absolutely beautiful day that the Lord has blessed me with. The sun is shining and it's a wonderful 23 degrees. Perfect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well, my day is getting underway but I wanted to say hello and wish each of you a beautiful Jesus filled day and may God richly bless you all.Tammy
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Good morning everyone! Hope all are doing well! Hehehe Im single yet im not single. LOL ok yall probably think that im strange. But here's how it is.. Im single in the world's eyes....dont even have someone im interested in.. and thats totally ok with me. Right now im not interested in dating.. had too many problems.... But on the other hand until God brings the right one... Im not available.... because its like im *married* to God.. got to get to know him a lot before i can even date... just something thats been on my heart. So this Valentine's day im spending the day with my Lord.... Just him and I. I must get going and finish getting ready for work.. but I do pray that you all have an awesome day... and that your week goes great as well! Ill check back in soon! Love you all! God Bless.Theresa
p.s. I should hear from that interview today... and when i do ill be sure to let you all know!
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Hi all!
Wisdom Seeker, you asked how I'm doing. This http://www.christianforums.com/t92756 is how I'm doing!
Well, we certainly felt this morning's 5.0, centered-on-the-northern-tip-of-the-Dead-Sea earthquake here at my downtown Jerusalem office! I was sitting here at my desk by the windows when the whole building (walls, floors, ceilings, etc.) began to shake. I first thought that it might be very strong wind & then a bomb but it was too prolonged (10+ seconds) for the wind & I heard no boom-boom. We all then realized that it was an earthquake. The radio news picked it up right away & all 3 local TV channels came on with special broadcasts. Wendy phoned & said they felt it on Mt. Scopus. Everyone & everything seems to be fine, thank God.
So...how are all of you doing?
This past Saturday we (Jews all over the world) read Exodus 13:17-17:16 and Judges 4:4-5:31.
Deborah (who features very prominently in the reading from Judges) literally means "bee". Our Sages say that this is not to her credit & in fact, that it is a kind of rebuke/reprimand to her to be so named. What did she do that deserved rebuke? In Judges 5:6-7, Deborah sings about our oppression at the hands of the King Jabin and Sisera:
"until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel"? Our Sages say that God reproached Deborah here for tooting her own horn and placing undue emphasis on herself instead of attributing our deliverance, and her role in it, to God and to God alone. For this, she was stuck with the name Deborah "bee".
There is one parallel to this. Hulda (the prophetess, see II Kings 22:14-20 and II Chronicles 34:22-28 ) literally means "weasel" or "rat". Why was this holy woman stuck with such a name? Also as a rebuke/reprimand. In II Kings 22:15 and II Chronicles 34:23, she tells the men whom King Josiah has sent to her, to ask if the Torah scroll they found in the Temple (which our Sages say was the original Torah scroll written by Moses himself, see Deuteronomy 31:24-26) was the real McCoy:
Our Sages say that God reproached her for referring to the righteous and holy King Josiah ("And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the Torah of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him") merely as, "the man" as she would refer to any commoner or ordinary man. For this bit of lese-majeste, for this slight to such a holy man, she was stuck with the name Hulda "weasel/rat".
The reading from Judges is one of my favorites, for lots of reasons. Deborah's Song is, I think, among the most poetically beautiful & evocative passages in the entire Tanakh. I love the imagery of Judges 5:20.
The very next verse, 5:21, describes how the Kishon River swept Sisea's army away:
The Kishon brook/river/stream (http://www.kishon.org.il/english.htm) rises near Jenin and drains over 1,100 square kilometers before emptying into Haifa Bay, between Haifa and the new/biblical city of Acre. It used to be quite beautiful (see http://www.kishon.org.il/time.htm). I say "used to" because, sadly, since the late 1930's, much of its lower reaches are polluted (http://www.kishon.org.il/pollution.htm) to death (literally!), due to a large industrial area (which Saddam the Wicked lobbed a few SCUDs at in 1991) near its mouth. There, the Kishon is more of a filthy sewer than a river/brook/stream.
I find this so sad, that here, we have taken this Land that God gave us ("a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths, springing forth in valleys and hills..." Deuteronomy 8:7) and poisoned parts of it and turned them into obscenities, into blights. Surely God will call us to account for this! Was it for this that He entrusted this Land to our care?
There is one other passage in the Tanakh, in which death and the Kishon are associated, I Kings 18:40.
(The association of the Kishon with death persists in the New Testament as well. A large part of its drainage basin includes the Esdraelon Valley, site of Revelation 16:16's Armageddon.)
And unfortunately, the Kishon is no less deadly today than it was to Sisera's army & the priests of Baal. There is a long-running controversy in Israel about a group of Navy frogmen & commandos who charge that they got cancer from being forced to train in the contaminated Kishon (see
http://web.israelinsider.com/bin/en...ho=Article^l2219&enZone=Security&enVersion=0&); several of these ex-frogmen/commandos have since died. Hopefully, the efforts of the Environment Ministry's Kishon River Authority (see the links above) will bear fruit and the Kishon will no longer be associated with death and will once again become the living river that it was in the near past.
Be well!
ssv
Wisdom Seeker, you asked how I'm doing. This http://www.christianforums.com/t92756 is how I'm doing!
Well, we certainly felt this morning's 5.0, centered-on-the-northern-tip-of-the-Dead-Sea earthquake here at my downtown Jerusalem office! I was sitting here at my desk by the windows when the whole building (walls, floors, ceilings, etc.) began to shake. I first thought that it might be very strong wind & then a bomb but it was too prolonged (10+ seconds) for the wind & I heard no boom-boom. We all then realized that it was an earthquake. The radio news picked it up right away & all 3 local TV channels came on with special broadcasts. Wendy phoned & said they felt it on Mt. Scopus. Everyone & everything seems to be fine, thank God.
So...how are all of you doing?
This past Saturday we (Jews all over the world) read Exodus 13:17-17:16 and Judges 4:4-5:31.
Deborah (who features very prominently in the reading from Judges) literally means "bee". Our Sages say that this is not to her credit & in fact, that it is a kind of rebuke/reprimand to her to be so named. What did she do that deserved rebuke? In Judges 5:6-7, Deborah sings about our oppression at the hands of the King Jabin and Sisera:
"until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel"? Our Sages say that God reproached Deborah here for tooting her own horn and placing undue emphasis on herself instead of attributing our deliverance, and her role in it, to God and to God alone. For this, she was stuck with the name Deborah "bee".
There is one parallel to this. Hulda (the prophetess, see II Kings 22:14-20 and II Chronicles 34:22-28 ) literally means "weasel" or "rat". Why was this holy woman stuck with such a name? Also as a rebuke/reprimand. In II Kings 22:15 and II Chronicles 34:23, she tells the men whom King Josiah has sent to her, to ask if the Torah scroll they found in the Temple (which our Sages say was the original Torah scroll written by Moses himself, see Deuteronomy 31:24-26) was the real McCoy:
Our Sages say that God reproached her for referring to the righteous and holy King Josiah ("And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the Torah of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him") merely as, "the man" as she would refer to any commoner or ordinary man. For this bit of lese-majeste, for this slight to such a holy man, she was stuck with the name Hulda "weasel/rat".
The reading from Judges is one of my favorites, for lots of reasons. Deborah's Song is, I think, among the most poetically beautiful & evocative passages in the entire Tanakh. I love the imagery of Judges 5:20.
The very next verse, 5:21, describes how the Kishon River swept Sisea's army away:
The Kishon brook/river/stream (http://www.kishon.org.il/english.htm) rises near Jenin and drains over 1,100 square kilometers before emptying into Haifa Bay, between Haifa and the new/biblical city of Acre. It used to be quite beautiful (see http://www.kishon.org.il/time.htm). I say "used to" because, sadly, since the late 1930's, much of its lower reaches are polluted (http://www.kishon.org.il/pollution.htm) to death (literally!), due to a large industrial area (which Saddam the Wicked lobbed a few SCUDs at in 1991) near its mouth. There, the Kishon is more of a filthy sewer than a river/brook/stream.
I find this so sad, that here, we have taken this Land that God gave us ("a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths, springing forth in valleys and hills..." Deuteronomy 8:7) and poisoned parts of it and turned them into obscenities, into blights. Surely God will call us to account for this! Was it for this that He entrusted this Land to our care?
There is one other passage in the Tanakh, in which death and the Kishon are associated, I Kings 18:40.
(The association of the Kishon with death persists in the New Testament as well. A large part of its drainage basin includes the Esdraelon Valley, site of Revelation 16:16's Armageddon.)
And unfortunately, the Kishon is no less deadly today than it was to Sisera's army & the priests of Baal. There is a long-running controversy in Israel about a group of Navy frogmen & commandos who charge that they got cancer from being forced to train in the contaminated Kishon (see
http://web.israelinsider.com/bin/en...ho=Article^l2219&enZone=Security&enVersion=0&); several of these ex-frogmen/commandos have since died. Hopefully, the efforts of the Environment Ministry's Kishon River Authority (see the links above) will bear fruit and the Kishon will no longer be associated with death and will once again become the living river that it was in the near past.
Be well!
ssv
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Hi all!
dsdumpling, I just edited my post & added those little details. Check the link; it's to a post of mine on the CF "News and Current Events" page & has more details, including Naor's reaction.
Be well!
ssv
dsdumpling, I just edited my post & added those little details. Check the link; it's to a post of mine on the CF "News and Current Events" page & has more details, including Naor's reaction.
Be well!
ssv
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Naor had a great reaction as did the kids at his school. Children only learn fear from adults. I'm thankful that no more happened than what did. God Bless You and yours.
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Hello fellowshippers!
The sun is shining, my spirits are up and I'm taking Samuel to Parent and Tot Program this afternoon. We have lots of fun at this play group. There are many toys, crafts, play dough, story time and snacks to occupy little minds, hands and mouths.
My husbands birhtday is on the 15th so Valentines kind of passes him by. Maybe I will get him a little chocolate or something sweet.
Buggie I loved your last post about Valentines day. God bless you and keep you and make His face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you. Amen
Have a great day all!
The sun is shining, my spirits are up and I'm taking Samuel to Parent and Tot Program this afternoon. We have lots of fun at this play group. There are many toys, crafts, play dough, story time and snacks to occupy little minds, hands and mouths.
My husbands birhtday is on the 15th so Valentines kind of passes him by. Maybe I will get him a little chocolate or something sweet.
Buggie I loved your last post about Valentines day. God bless you and keep you and make His face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you. Amen
Have a great day all!
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You've got lot more going for you than a lot of guys your age that I've talked to James. If I had a daughter old enough...I would say the same thing as Dawn did. (But alas...my daughters are 9 and 5...and their father has decided that they will not be allowed to date until they are 35...Dad's and their little girls. 
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Soon Soulwings, soon. Winter lasts just long enough that we truly appreciate the spring when it comes.
There is nothing quite so joyful to me as the first bud of a leaf on my baren trees. Or the sound of the birds returning. Or being able to have my windows open, letting the soft sweet smelling air waft in. Spring is my favorite season. I think Heaven will be much like Spring.
There is nothing quite so joyful to me as the first bud of a leaf on my baren trees. Or the sound of the birds returning. Or being able to have my windows open, letting the soft sweet smelling air waft in. Spring is my favorite season. I think Heaven will be much like Spring.
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Nah, I guess I'll keep 'em. I've had them for so long now. If you lived a little closer....Lbiagm said:
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I'm off to the orthodontist with my son, after dropping off my girls at school.
Hope everyone here is taking care of themselves.
Catch you all later. Have a fulfilling day.
(p.s. in case anyone's interested...I've added a picture of my children to my profile. It was taken last August when L. was turning 5)
Hope everyone here is taking care of themselves.
Catch you all later. Have a fulfilling day.
(p.s. in case anyone's interested...I've added a picture of my children to my profile. It was taken last August when L. was turning 5)
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